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The Rise of Islam
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10th Grade
12/05/2010

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Sheikh
Definition
the leader of an Arab village or family; elder; a religious official
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Imam
Definition
rulers who could trace descent from the successors of Ali
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Hijrah
Definition
migration; Prophet's migration from Mecca to Medina
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Hijrah
Definition
migration; Prophet's migration from Mecca to Medina
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Shari'ah
Definition
Islamic law; defined among other things the patrilineal nature of Islamic inheritance
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Hajj
Definition
a Muslim's pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, to worship Allah at the Ka'ba
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Five Pillars of Islam
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1. confession of faith
2. prayer
3. fasting
4. zakat - giving of alms
5. hajj - the pilgrimage to Mecca
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Mamluk
Definition
Muslim slave warriors; halted Mongol advance
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Khadija
Definition
first wife of the prophet Muhammad, who had worked for her as a trader
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Bedouins
Definition
nomads of Arabian peninsula
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Muhammad
Definition
Prophet of Islam
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Caliph
Definition
political and religious successor to Muhammad
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Jihad
Definition
"struggle in the way of God"
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Shi'ias
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Shi'ites; political and theological division within Islam; followers of Ali
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Saladin
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Ayyubid leader that reconquers most of the Crusader kingdoms
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Sunnis
Definition
political and theological division within Islam; supported by the Umayyads
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Sufis
Definition
mystics within Islam
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Mosque
Definition
a Muslim place of worship
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Mu'awiyah
Definition
first Umayyad caliph following civil war with Ali
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Mongols
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Central Asian nomadic peoples; smashed Turko-Persian kingdoms
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Moguls
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a member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India
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Bazaar
Definition
a covered market where a variety of goods are sold
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Abbasids
Definition
dynasty that succeeded the Umayyads
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Minaret
Definition
a feature of mosque architecture; a tower from which the faithful are called to worship
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Muezzin
Definition
the man who issues the call to prayer from one of the minarets of a mosque
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arabesque
Definition
an ornament that interlaces simulated foliage in an intricate deisgn
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Five reasons why Islam spread so quickly
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1. a religion distinctly Arab in origin and yet the equal of the monotheistic faiths held by the Christians and Jews
2. end vendettas and feuds that so long divided Arab people
3. Muhammad won Battle of Mecca so entire Meccan population converted; he then conquered all Arabia for Islam/the Caliphs also defeated lots of the Middle East and converted
4. ethical system
5. equality (social mobility)
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Why Islam branches after 680 CE
Definition
there was a problem of succession after Muhammad
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The significance of Islam in establishing Europe/"The West" as a prominent World power
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it created a vast empire
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the succession of Islamic Empires and capitals
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1. Fatimid - Mahdia/Cairo
2. Umayyad - Damascus/Cordoba
3. Abbasid - Baghdad
4. Ayyubid - Cairo
5. Mamluk Sutanate - Cairo
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Islam founder
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Muhammad
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Muhammad born
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c 570
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Muhammad spent most of his life in
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Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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first year for Muslims; Why?
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622: when Muhammad immigrated to Medina
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how Christians view Jesus vs. how Muslims view Muhammad
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Muslims don't worship Muhammad but Christians worship Jesus
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why did Muhammad acquire a following at the start of his ministry
Definition
because Yathrib needed a leader, and Muhammad took the job, in return, they followed him
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680 in Islamic history
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Battle of Karbala
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mamluk, Ayyubid leader that seizes Palestine from the Knight Templars
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Saladin
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wisdom literature for Islam
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Qur'an
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Qur'an was written in
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610-632
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3 sects of Islam
Definition
1. Shi'ite
2. Sufi
3. Sunni
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Qur'an translated
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"the recitation"
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chapters in Qur'an are called
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Surahs
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2 important figures in the spreading of the Qur'an throughout the world
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1. Muhammad
2. Ali
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Al-Bakri
Definition
recorded history/scholar/traveler
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why al-bakri's writings important today?
Definition
b/c no one else wrote about these things at the time
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are these writings historical?
Definition
unclear because his stories were preposterous
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The king in W. Africa was Muslim T or F?
Definition
True
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Ibn Battuta finds ... strange
Definition
a lack of sexual jealousy
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Battuta accurate or no?
Definition
accurate
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Ibn Battuta's observations are more observations ad less stories he heard. T or F.
Definition
True
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Muhammad began to meditate in the hills because
Definition
he became troubled by the gap between the honesty of most Makkans and the greediness of trading elites in the city
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Hussein
Definition
the split of Islam into two groups, the Shiites and the Sunnis
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Umayyad dynasty was replaced by the
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Abbasids
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Baghdad was the new
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Constantinople
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It was through the Muslim world that Europeans
Definition
were able to obtain products from Spain and Egypt
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Omar Khayyam
Definition
his literary works, especially the Rubaiyat
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during the Abbasid dynasty, the council that advised the caliph was led by a prime minister known as a
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vizier
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Resentment against Umayyad rule grew because
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non-Arab Muslims did not like the way local administrators favored Arabs
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the Crusades
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breed centuries of mistrust between Muslims and Christians
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shari'ah
Definition
forbids them to gamble, eat pork, drink alcoholic beverages, or engage in dishonest behavior
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Ibn Sina's encyclopedia
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was translated into Latin and became a basic textbook in Europe
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Islamic scholars and theologians organized Islamic moral rules into the ... or code of law
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shari'ah
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Mu'awiyah was awesome because
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he only used force when necessary
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why are there no representations of the prophet Muhammad adorning mosques...
Definition
the Hadith warns against any attempt to imitate God by creating pictures of living beings
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